Not pointing fingers or anything

One of the major advantages to being a registered user is, you can edit your comments as long as no one has responded to it using the 'reply' link immediately below the comment.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on January 10, 2005 - 12:59am
 
 

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If you use the "edit" link, you can edit it even if someone has responded to it. Or at least you could back when I was confused about who I was talking too. I edited the response to cover over my confusion, but was busted before I could get that completed.

However, my edit took effect, which had the effect of making your quote "non-existent". That didn't seem, well, fair, so I edited it yet again to put it back to its original, confused state. If you check back, you'll see where there is a single artifact to prove the edit: a P6 vs p6.

Posted by  dwshelf on January 10, 2005 - 7:04am.

Technically, we're not respondinding to each other, we're creating new comments. To respond to a comment (and make it impossible for someone to edit their comment later) you'd reply using the "reply" link that's right near the "edit" link.

I never forced the issue because I'm assuming we're dealing with grownups.

Posted by  Prometheus 6 on January 10, 2005 - 10:57am.

I now see what happened.

If you click the "edit" link before someone else clicks "reply", you can complete your edit after the reply. Once the edit completed, you then "own" the posting yet again, since your edit is later than the reply.

Agreed, not a problem.

Posted by  dwshelf on January 10, 2005 - 5:29pm.